Family of Karina Vetrano, Queens Woman Snatched and Killed Going for a Run, Watches Confession in Tears

Published at 7:43 AM EST on Nov 21, 2017

The family of Karina Vetrano gathered for a memorial walk a year after she was killed while going for a run in her Queens neighborhood. Ray Villeda reports.

(Published Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017)

What to Know

Karina Vetrano's strangulation death shocked the city; her body was found by her father and police hours after she went missing

Her alma mater, Archbishop Molloy High School, held a fundraiser to establish a scholarship in her name

Chanel Lewis, 20, of East New York, is charged with murder and sexual abuse in her strangulation death

The family of a woman found dead after she vanished while jogging watched in tears as lawyers played a taped confession of the man accused of killing her.

Chanel Lewis has been charged with murder in the 2016 death of Karina Vetrano. He has pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys say his confession was wrongly obtained and should not be admissible in his upcoming trial.

Nearly a year ago, a young woman was sexually assaulted and killed. Rana Novini reports.

(Published Saturday, June 24, 2017)

The video was played in court Monday. Lewis says he grabbed the 30-year-old who ran past him in on a secluded section of a marshland park in Queens. He says he beat and strangled her, but he did not molest her.

The body had been found with her clothing in disarray leading investigators to suspect she'd also been sexually assaulted.